About Us
Who We Are
Words from our owner:
“My vision for StaySafe Training is and always will be a family ran business, supporting locals, delivered by locals.
I have personal industry experience in a wide range of industries - marine, transport, construction, oil and gas. I am a great believer in delivering quality training to small groups with very minimum numbers required for training.
Our team have personally selected all trainers that work for StaySafe Training, to ensure that they align with StaySafe Training's values.” - Dene Dempsey
Our trainers exude the utmost professionalism, and are continually developing their skills each and every day. We specialise in safety training for several lines of work including working in confined spaces, operating heavy machinery such as excavators and skid steer loaders and working safely at heights. We’ll make sure you’re prepared for whatever you’re about to face.
History of StaySafe Training
How we become
The Dempsey Family (Dene, Tracy, Jacinta and Daniel) have always been a tightknit family, always adventuring on the weekends and making memories together. Prior to StaySafe Training, Dene spent many of his years in the construction industry, and the local mines, and Tracy spent her time in retail and management.
On a family trip to the Riverlands, Dene and Daniel had spent the night camping on the riverbank, and this is where everything became about – after months of testing, and the inability to work, Dene was diagnosed with Ross River Virus, a disease that is transmitted through mosquitos – occurring on the camping trip at the riverbank. This diagnosis meant that Dene was unable to work in mainstream employment due to the unknown of the disease flaring. At this time, Dene decided to put his knowledge into developing StaySafe Training.
The journey was a long and hard road requiring a lot of training, and resilience from the family. In 2013, StaySafe Training was developed, offering a handful of small courses to the Whyalla community. In 2017, StaySafe Training was incorporated as Benchmark Safety (BMS).
StaySafe Training has delivered nationally recognised accredited training to the Whyalla community and surrounding areas under Third Party Arrangments with reputable RTOs. We become a Registered Training Organisation (RTO) in June of 2018. Since registration, StaySafe Training has continued to provide these services, as a local Registered Training Organisation.
Over the past 11 years, StaySafe Training have established, and continues to build, an excellent reputation as a provider of high-quality training and assessment services through consistent delivery of flexible and effective training and assessment solutions to meet employer, participant and industry needs.
The expertise brought to StaySafe Training by its trainers is extensive with trainers each having 30+ years of industry experience in construction, mining, marine, heavy machine operation. In addition, the directors have extensive business ownership and administration experience.
StaySafe training continues to run as a small family business, mindful of always giving back to community and striving for locals supporting locals.
Pictured above are co-founders of StaySafe Training - Tracy Dempsey (CEO/Finance) & Dene Dempsey (Owner) presented with Whyalla Business and Tourism Business of the Month in 2022.
Everything you need to know
We train for the following courses:
Nationally Recognised
Accredited Training Courses
NON Nationally Recognised
Accredited Training Courses
Course Calendar
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Learner & Stakeholder Feedback
Byron is a great trainer, very knowledgeable & interacted well with us all. Asset too your business.
Best course I've attended. Clear and precise with ample examples and stories attached to what was relevant to the course.
Todays first aid training was probably the best one I’ve ever done and I’ve been to quite a few now . The trainer was really good, enjoyed how stories and felt at ease with the practical activities, friendly reception staff. Thankyou again.
Staff is very professional makes everything smoother big thumbs to lecturers.
Really happy with the training and the trainer well done keep up the good work thanks.
Excellent interaction, the way training should be.
All the theory and practical exercises covers up all the information that I need.
The team at StaySafe training are very excellent. The training is easy to understand and the people there are super nice. Will recommend them to everyone.
Was a good session, and being able to have a bit of a joke and a laugh as a group made it really enjoyable and I like to do another course in the future.
The course was done well with good interaction from all participants and the trainer, I will be looking at booking any further training requirements through Staysafe whenever I can.
The CPR course was to a high standard and delivered all expectations.
Good trainer. Elements of humour added into explanations made learning easier and less stressful.
Very well run. Dene was informative and pleasant.
Training specific for Australian standards and GFG, which is both relevant and useful.